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How to Support Young People After a Summer Faith Formation Experience

How to Support Young People After a Summer Faith Formation Experience

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Recognizing Shame-Based Fears and Discovering Freedom in God’s Mercy

Recognizing Shame-Based Fears and Discovering Freedom in God’s Mercy

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Struggling with the Good Samaritan: Seeing Myself in Each Character in Different Seasons

Struggling with the Good Samaritan: Seeing Myself in Each Character in Different Seasons

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For Such a Time as This: The Belhar Confession 40 Years Later

For Such a Time as This: The Belhar Confession 40 Years Later

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From Edmonton to Bukavu: A Story of Faithfulness, Regional Conflict, and Theological Hope

From Edmonton to Bukavu: A Story of Faithfulness, Regional Conflict, and Theological Hope

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Better Than A Cure: My Journey To Finding Healing In Christ

Better Than A Cure: My Journey To Finding Healing In Christ

Slow Gratification: Saying “No” as a Spiritual Discipline

Slow Gratification: Saying “No” as a Spiritual Discipline

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Our Life With Autism Is Holy and Full of God’s Beauty

Our Life With Autism Is Holy and Full of God’s Beauty

Step Into the Light and Spiritual Intimacy as an Act of Self-Care

Step Into the Light and Spiritual Intimacy as an Act of Self-Care

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Kids Books About Christian Women in Leadership

Kids Books About Christian Women in Leadership

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How to Support Young People After a Summer Faith Formation Experience

They’ve returned from the mission trip, conference, or summer camp with a spiritual “high” and an ignited faith. Now what?
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Short-Term Mission toolkit

This toolkit guides you through the mission trip planning process and equips you with tools to use on your trip and after you come home, like travel tips, devotions, fundraising advice, cultural awareness training, and more.

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Belhar Confession Worship Resources

These Belhar Confession worship resources can be used to help you integrate the themes of the Belhar Confession—unity, reconciliation, and justice—in your worship services.

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Spirituality

Recognizing Shame-Based Fears and Discovering Freedom in God’s Mercy

We can learn to revel in the truth that God does not punish us as we deserve. God consistently rescues…
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Christianity

Struggling with the Good Samaritan: Seeing Myself in Each Character in Different Seasons

I made peace with the reality that I won’t always be the Good Samaritan.
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Belhar Confession

For Such a Time as This: The Belhar Confession 40 Years Later

May the Holy Spirit and the Belhar be our guide in the work of racial reconciliation and pursuing unity in…
group of Congolese candidates for ministry
Leadership
From Edmonton to Bukavu: A Story of Faithfulness, Regional Conflict, and Theological Hope
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Disability and Mental Health
Better Than A Cure: My Journey To Finding Healing In Christ
Faith Formation
Slow Gratification: Saying “No” as a Spiritual Discipline
Janet and Grace smile together
Disability and Mental Health
Our Life With Autism Is Holy and Full of God’s Beauty
Faith Practices
Step Into the Light and Spiritual Intimacy as an Act of Self-Care
young girl reads a book on a couch in sunlight
Faith Formation
Kids Books About Christian Women in Leadership
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Discernment
How to Meet Anxiety, Fear, and Grief in the Midst of Ever-Changing Lives
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Mission
How Difficult Stories Spur Me To Use My Gifts and Talents for God’s Mission
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Christianity
A Look at Disconnected Spiritual Contentment in Grief | Excerpt from Navigating the Waves of Grief